A time for celebration, but also a time for preparation

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Published on Thursday, 06 December 2012 13:29

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We must celebrate! Last week, Highland Companies – the corporate potato farmers providing cover for the world’s ninth largest hedge fund, Boston’s Baupost – pulled the plug on their plans to build North America’s second-largest quarry just north of Toronto.

This would have been no ordinary quarry. It was to be a hole that would bury an area equal to 60 per cent of our riding,  20 stories below ground.  It would have required 600 million litres of water to be pumped – per day. It would have sent 7,200 trucks full of aggregate headed to Toronto – per day. And it would have required us to look much further afield to find about half the potatoes we eat in this city.

From one perspective, nothing’s changed – the status quo prevails.  Moreover, it was a fight that consumed the time and challenged the faith, patience and good humour of thousands.

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By Matthew Kellway, MP, Beaches/East York

Posted in the "Beach Metro Community News", December  4, 2012

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